Monday, December 02, 2024

My Review of James by Percival Everett on GoodReads

JamesJames by Percival Everett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I enjoyed reading this book. A lot.

I must confess that I was skeptical at first, I read "The Adventures oF Huckleberry Finn" a long time ago and I didn't want to change my perception of it.

I was hooked on the first pages.

So the original story follows Huck and Jim as they runaway and travel through the Mississippi in the middle of the 19th century south.

This novel is the same story told through the eyes of James, the runaway slave.

I don't know how the author manages to expose the brutalities of slavery while making it funny. He makes fun of racist white people, and he calls out how you have your obvious racists, but also the people who don't consider themselves racist, but, do nothing to change what's going on.

There's a lot to this book. It's well written, funny, it's deep, thought provoking. I hope many people get to read it.

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